5degrees and raining

makes u feel pretty alive. well afterwards. like quite a while afterwards, after the shower and much toast marmite cheese and eggs. like when u get the feeling back in your toes. im finding out that warm dry toes is pretty much the holy grail of being a bike messenger in a wet northern hemisphere winter. speaking of the wet northern hemisphere: u recognise anyone here?

now i gotta go look for an outfit for the berlin halloween alleycat race. apparently its gonna be fast. like crazy fast. but the real winner is the best outfit. so in 24 hrs ill singing karaoke in berlin with crazies from all over europe preparing a good german beer hangover for the next morning's festivities. speaking of germans

didnt watching die fetten jahre sind vorbei make u want to join a radical left wing political movement? or just start your own... whats the most radical leftist organisation you can think of? do u have to be mexican to join the zapatistas? i think we should tell all the stinking rich people that they have too much money and their days of plenty are numbered

msngrng

so i tried to go big corporate (again) and it seems this time they even saw thru my suit and my old boys tie. or maybe i was given away by the glint in my eye that came from riding in the rain for nine hours the day before. ill be honest, i thought of quitting the messenger dream more than 9 times the day before the big interview cos it was cold, frikken cold, and still early days in the european winter. but when i arrived back to the office at the end of the day and saw the looks on the faces of guys from cold countries like finland and um well, the netherlands, it became a little clearer to me what had just happened. this was one of those special days, u dont get many of them in a year. they suck. normally when its that cold, it doesnt rain so much here. on tuesday it was cold and it rained all day long. then there was friday, blue skies and sunshine, no wind, it was good not to be stuck in an office again. oh, and to be paid to ride a bike!



i have new found respect for the cold and the wet. luckily the boss gives us good clothes to wear. now all i need is some shoe covers and i can test my theory that winter is worse when ur indoors...

amsterdam alleycat

http://player.omroep.nl/?aflID=7980879

click about half way. ignore the dutch if u cant understand it. look out for the pink handlebars.